Area Manager - Dartmouth, NS; Cleaning Industry

Dartmouth, NS, Canada

Posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM

We are an established Canadian facility, maintenance company. We provide a variety of services to large retail and commercial businesses nationally.

We have a competitive compensation & benefits plan including health, dental and vision, and a pension plan after 1 year.

This role is responsible for leading, managing, coordinating, and implementing daily the Janitorial Services scope of works at all store or site locations within the designated area or territory, across multiple customer banners.

• Customer Experience & Retention
• Performance of our Partners & Cleaners
• Overall Store Operations (Including store budgets, profitability & KPI’s)
• Quality Standards & Audits
• Training
• Cost Management
• Increasing Revenue & Profits per Store and Customer Banners
• United & Customer Processes, Policies & Guidelines
• Support to other Area Managers as required

• Responsible for participation in the development and implementation of annual plans by customer banners (annual waxing schedules/, budgets, potential add on sales opportunities).
• Implement store level budgets.
• Create and develop short and long-term strategies at store level to secure sustainability and profitability of all operations.

• Build strong relationships with customers and business partners at store level (cross‑selling, building trust, deliver good service, consistency, follow through, be a United brand ambassador and represent the brand positively).
• Single point of contact at store level with customer for the communication between United and the customer for all services (nights, day porters, outside services, etc.) & various departments within United.
• Address store level customer concerns and provide timely and effective solutions to problems.
• Support Regional Management on all face‑to‑face meetings or touchpoints with key customer stakeholders (e.g., Customer District Managers (DM's) & Customer V.P level).
• Daily/Weekly/Monthly meetings with customers banners on store audits, case management & action plans, periodic schedules, scope of works.
• Daily/Weekly/Monthly reporting on issues & escalations, action plans, including access issues, to customer.
• Weekly or as required, store compliancy walks with customers.
• Lead or participate in store transition meetings with new customer and partner together about expectations around scope of works and set expectations.

Lead and coordinate all store level communication with United Partners daily on issues and actions.

• Set expectations with Partners, provide training, coaching & mentoring.
• Participate in cross-functional weekly & monthly meetings with Regional & Support Teams (e.g., L & D, Partner Relations, Equipment Services).

Lead all process initiatives/implementation at store level; work with senior management on identifying store level trends and process gaps.

• Lead store level customer store/calibration walks.
• Lead process adoption in Salesforce.
• Responsible for managing business using United technologies provided (e.g., Salesforce/Outlook).
• Lead and/or support key United operational processes and KPI’s:
  As per Retention Priority Framework, to name a few.
• Support Partner Change Overs (PCO) with Partnership team.
• Material Ordering.
• In‑Store Specials.
• Conduct Visitation Audits & manage Case management for issues and escalations.
• Create and implement Periodic Schedules.
• A.R.I and H & S Compliance.
• I.D Badging & uniform compliance for all Partners & cleaners.
• In Store Partner Training and support Partner Effectiveness in Partner training Program.
• Support Partner Effectiveness team in Hiring/Recruitment/Termination of Partners.
• Collection of Annexes or any other types of Inspections/reporting required by Customers for Billing purposes.

• Responsible at store level for Revenue + Cost per Store;
  Budget Vs Actual + Gross margins.
• Responsible for the store level financial activities related to billing, invoicing, store budgets, customers, suppliers and sub‑contractors’ expenses,…